BYU fans are quite spoiled and have really unrealistic expectations. With the
challenges that BYU has in recruiting speed at the skill positions, you'd
think the Cougar faithful wouldn't be shocked or angry when they get beat
by better/faster teams. Yet whenever it happens I hear an extraordinary amount
of whining and excuse making and calls for the coach's head.

Utah fans lack a realistic approach also. Tell me how you are going to
compete for a Pac 12 championship and a Rose Bowl when the BYU game is still the
only real "must-win" on your schedule? I think the best thing that
could happen for Utah is for the rivalry to go away for 2 years. Hopefully then
Utah can focus on winning PAC 12 games of substance rather than non-league games
against mediocre independents.

You need to do some more research before you diss the 62,000+ fans at
Lavell's last game. What was the weather like? Who were they playing?
What was their season record at that point? What time was the game? Did Provo
City or UDOT have a major construction project at the stadium or on the freeway?
And what about the 62,000+ that DID show up? They ought to get some respect,
in fact look at why they needed to build the expanded stadium in the first place
and how many sell-out games they have had over the years. Total fans in that
time? Sour grapes by the reporter.

One lame dude attaching a
cheerleader hardly qualifies as being a bad fan base. I can give you instances
of fans 40 miles north getting into fights in the stands and injuring a lady
while campus police turned their head. Does that make that schools fans bad
too, by association?

During Edwards' era cheers were for
touchdowns; during Crowton's ear they were for first downs. The momentum
changes from year-to-year.

I know you need a story for rivalry week,
but this one fails somewhat.

Hey, Chris B, glad to see you are singing the praises of the WAC. You
conveniently left out the MWC. Remember way back when reality was something
Utah fans understood when they were charter members of the WAC and the MWC
(probably before you were born) and BYU dominated that league in almost EVERY
sport, year-in-and-year-out? Utah had a good basketball program for a while,
but where is that now? How many league titles does Utah have in
Track-and-Field during those glory years? NONE. How many in baseball? How
many in Football? Why did Whittingham say he was glad they would never have to
play Air Force in Football again?

Utah carries the water and towels
for the 'big boys' cuz they certainly don't give them any
competition. You LOST to OSU at home. In year one, it was Colorado at HOME.

Utes---big deal.

Go sell PAC 12 Trivia, that's
where U excel, not on the field. Don't forget 0 - 27 at UNLV, too.
Embarrassing, wasn't it? Now you get creamed every week in the PAC 12.

Waiting for a similar article about Utah now. All this did was show that fans of
BYU are human. Demeaning BYU fans by showing some of the worst about them and
then making fun of the "primary lessons" and "Mini-van"
stereotype is pathetic.

Are you going to write about the coward Utah
fan who charged Mendenhall last year and back down after Mendenhall started
walking to him? What about Ute fans dumping beer on Max Halls family? Seems an
article like this is only meant to demean a program, not uplift. Try writing
something positive about the fans and see if you can change the situation for
the better (for Utes and Cougars) rather than allow this article to become a
hotbed of infighting that is already out of control (al la Chris B).

"How about those Oregon State Beavers! On and
check in with Amazon, they just released those PAC 12 doormats in beautiful
crimson red. Just in time for the holidays!"

Only a BYU fan would
know, right? Considering your kitty cats keep losing to that conference
"doormat" you whY? like to call us. Now you can add Virginia to that
list of conference doormats your kitty cats lost to. Doesn't look too good
for BYU, now does it?

When utah can talk about their greatness based on what they
accomplish as a team then your words will have merrit... losing to OSU on your
own field after they were taken to the wood shed by an FCS team on their home
field does not give your team any form of bragging rights... Belonging to the
Big Bad PAC12 means nothing when you are a doormat...

Looking at your
schedule makes me think that y'all have a very long season ahead of you...
The only potential win I see for utah is the last game of the season against
your new rival "Colorado" and I would not be surprised if they take you
out too... That leaves you guys with a 2-10 season... Ouch... Hope that
doesn't cost KW his job...

Pounding one's chest based on
the league one belongs to is like our former QB (Heaps) telling America how
tough they are going to be as a member of the Big 12... LOL... They were spanked
last weekend by Rice and a full season of spankings are scheduled for them as
well.

I don't get it.Why does DN feel compelled to dish all this hate on
BYU fans?Even your examples of bad fan behavior are pretty weak.Are
you going to submit a similar article about Utah fans?I've attended a
lot of BYU road games all over the country, and I can honestly say that when it
comes to bad behavior, there is not even a close second to Utah fans.

To all Utah and Utah State fans, I'm a USC fan, and believe me, they way SC
is capable of playing poorly this season don't be surprised if one or both
of you get wins against an ostensible top 25 team. As for BYU, from what I saw
against Texas, I'm glad we won't be playing them this year.

I have no doubt that an article very much like this could be written about the
fan base of every college football program in America. If the only unique thing
- the only negative thing that is, at least, uncommon among other groups of fans
- that you (the proverbial "you") can say about BYU's fans is that
they don't show up on time for games or that they don't get drunk in
the parking lot before a game starts, then I think this is pretty weak.

I'm a BYU fan and love BYU sports, but the fans have always been an enigma
to me. They called for Norm Chows head and then did nothing but complain after
his departure. Many of them wanted Anae gone after somehow forgetting how awful
the offense was before him...only to realize it again when Doman took his place.
There's the almost sacrament meeting atmosphere at times in the stadium,
where if you stand up to cheer some old timer yells at you to sit back down
because you're blocking his view (probably the same guy that said "they
don't have games on Saturday afternoon anymore").There's the lack
of tailgating and pregame pageantry that carries tradition at other power
programs. When I watch my Georgia Bulldogs there's a sea of red in the
stands, including read pom poms and towels. BYUs stands look like a collidascope
of colors, which has always been disappointing to me. In other programs, gameday
is an event...all day. If BYU fans are honest, they see the truth in many points
of this article. I am, however, looking for the same truth in a forthcoming Utah
article.

@ Nevada CougIf you are looking for a bad loss to UNLV you do not have to
look any further than when the Y lost to UNLV at HOME in 2004.The U used
their horrible loss to Unlv to go 21-1 over the next season and half, BYU went
into the fetal position and fired their coach.

@CougsndawgsI agree with you! I laughed hard at your comment because I was
at a BYU basketball game once and I got sweated for standing because they
couldn't see. I just moved, but it was hilarious that you brought it up.